{"id":65,"date":"2008-11-24T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/24\/when-you-just-have-to-go\/"},"modified":"2008-11-24T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T03:05:00","slug":"when-you-just-have-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/24\/when-you-just-have-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Just Have to Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dashing home from a week of meetings, sliding in by 7pm, time to<br \/>\nunpack, do laundry, repack and take care of some work deliverables, so<br \/>\nthat at 6am I&#8217;m on my way to our favourite place on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grand_Manan_Island,_New_Brunswick\">Grand<br \/>\nManan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We transited Halifax, which is still digging out from 30cm (a foot) of<br \/>\nsnow.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/2008\/WhenYouJustHaveToGo\/IMG_0836-sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blowing past Air Canada\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/2008\/WhenYouJustHaveToGo\/IMG_0836-thmb.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 200px; height: 150px;\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/2008\/WhenYouJustHaveToGo\/IMG_0842-sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"blowing perspex\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/2008\/WhenYouJustHaveToGo\/IMG_0842-thmb.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 150px; height: 200px;\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>And clambered onto the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beechcraft_King_Air\">Beechcraft<br \/>\n18-seater <\/a>for the flight to Saint<br \/>\nJohn &#8212; big sunset, small plane.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/2008\/WhenYouJustHaveToGo\/IMG_0843-sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sunset -- mile high\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/2008\/WhenYouJustHaveToGo\/IMG_0843-thmb.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 150px; height: 200px;\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/2008\/WhenYouJustHaveToGo\/IMG_0846-sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"beechcraft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/BlogHTML\/2008\/WhenYouJustHaveToGo\/IMG_0846-thmb.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 150px; height: 200px;\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>An hour south of Saint John, we grabbed supplies in Blacks Harbour, and<br \/>\nmade the 5:30pm ferry &#8212; arriving on the island at 7pm, to a fully<br \/>\nworking (and warm!) house (but no Internet &#8212; hence the delay in<br \/>\nposting this).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dashing home from a week of meetings, sliding in by 7pm, time to unpack, do laundry, repack and take care of some work deliverables, so that at 6am I&#8217;m on my way to our favourite place on Grand Manan. 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